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- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
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March 27, 2004

SOCIAL ACTIVISM

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All I can say to this is "Omnidon". My sister has the books, but she's two states away from me (thank God and let it go!) But for those who have read the early books (sortof like the original series) That is one bad guy I respected.

P.S. Since in space, no one can hear you scream, I am not going to bother downloading or watching the presentation presented. Actually, I stopped Trekking the Stars after the originals. Read the books and sent them to my sister until...anyways, the whole "new to me thing" of Generations et al, I didn't pay attention to. C'est la me.

I say bring back the animated series, that fixes everything that is fixable about Star Trek. Also, change the Klingons back to how they were before their whole empire turned into one giant Viking leather bar!

I'm actually one level nerdier than a Trekkie, so I know what went wrong. Larry Niven, one of the writters of the animated series, upon which the earliest books were based, made up a speicies called the Kzinti, sort of tiger men who were pretty much the opposite of classical Klingons; striving to live up to a harsh code of honor, etc, whereas the original Klingons were total Machiavelian caricatures of DISHONOR who always consider Kirk's own Kzinti like traits to be his big weakness. The Kzinti live on in every big, mean, honorable giant alien aggressive cat man in video games etc (Kilrathi, Kmongpo, Kblahblah...) Anyway, the INCREDIBLY UNIMAGINITIVE writters thought the Kzinti where cooler than the Klingons, so they just started writting Klingons that way. They didn't have the budget to do Kzinti as written, and apparently the galaxy didn't have room for another speicies that differs from humans only in facial features and a single, distinguishing, racially universal neurosis.

Anyway, did anyone see what I posted in the "Tinkerbell is offended" comments area? I'm pretty clever! I'm hoping the Big Dave discovers me as a humor writter now.

I think some of you aren't really taking this whole "Bring Back Kirk" thing seriously. What's next, are you just going to ignore my write in campaign to bring out "TJ Hooker" complete on DVD.? Come on people! The time is now! NO HOOKER! NO PEACE!